A series of podcasts featuring interviews by John Pelan, Director of the Scottish Council on Archives, with a range of professionals, academics, community leaders and users of archives. Topics include archives and records in the time of Covid-19, neutrality in the archive, using data to inform decision-making, and digital preservation.

Archives and records.
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Podcast Overview
A series of podcasts featuring interviews by John Pelan, Director of the Scottish Council on Archives, with a range of professionals, academics, community leaders and users of archives. Topics include archives and records in the time of Covid-19, neutrality in the archive, using data to inform decision-making, and digital preservation.
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Publishing Since
5/12/2020
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Recent Episodes

April 20, 2021
Interview with Sir Geoff Palmer, 24th March 2021
<p>A 40-minute interview with Sir Geoff Palmer, OBE, Professor Emeritus in the School of Life Sciences at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, and a leading human rights activist. The discussion covers issues such as Sir Geoff's use of archives to tell the story of Henry Dundas's role in delaying the abolition of slavery by fifteen years; resistance of contemporary historians towards a new interpretation of events using a scientific approach; and the importance of documentary evidence to refuting those who seek to downplay or deny crimes against humanity.</p>

April 5, 2021
Interview with Arike Oke, 11th March 2021
A 50-minute interview with Arike Oke, Managing Director of Black Cultural Archives, the only national heritage centre dedicated to collecting, preserving and celebrating the histories of African and Caribbean people in Britain. The discussion covers issues such as the absence of black voices and stories in archives; the potential for archives to change attitudes; and the civic responsibility of archivists and record-keepers.

March 23, 2021
Interview with Jaime Valentine, 4th March 2021
A 60-minute interview with Dr Jaime Valentine, Chair of OurStory Scotland, an organisation which collects, archives and presents a wide range of stories, recordings, documents, images and artefacts of the lives of the LGBT community in Scotland. The discussion covers issues such as the need for an LGBT archive, what difference it has made to the lives of LGBT people in Scotland, and why it is important that the national record tells everyone's stories.
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